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Amy Winehouse Has '12 Songs' Nearly Finished, Label Says

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Universal, the global company that owns Amy Winehouse's label Island, has claimed the deceased star recorded the bases for a dozen tracks that could be released.

Since her last album 'Back to Black' came out in 2006, Winehouse struggled with addiction to drink and drugs before her death, though she went into recording studios at various points over the past two and a half years, the anonymous source said. One session acknowledged publicly was on the Caribbean island St Lucia.

The source told the Guardian that the "framework" was in place for a set of 12 unfinished songs: "Amy had expressed an interest in getting back into the studio, and after some consultation everyone thought that would be a positive thing and a distraction from the other things she was dealing with."

Winehouse was confident enough about certain tracks that she allowed label bosses such as Universal chief executive Lucian Grainge to hear them. "She had put down the bare bones of tracks and some were further along than others," the source explained. "People were getting very excited, quite frankly they were really good. We heard rough cuts and they sounded like vintage Amy."

At the 2008 Music Industry Trust Awards, Grainge told the audience that the songs he had heard sounded "sensational." Any decision to release new material would be made by Winehouse's parents, both her management and label have said. Last year, the singer herself had described recent recordings as similar in style to her second album.

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JOEL & LORNA

COOL

July 30 2011 at 8:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ie41969

Who cares!

July 30 2011 at 7:33 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
Linda

Oh Amy....I wish you were still here with us. Such a sad sad thing your death. If you died from alcohol withdraw I gotta give it to ya lady for at least trying as hard as you did to stop your drinking and drugging....but for that to kill you...that is soooo sad. Your voice was magic...and that will be greatly missed..that golden voice of yours was beyond lovely...you kicked arse with your voice! I hope they do realease your last album...I KNOW I shall buy that one as well. Rest in Peace baby girl! We loved ya! And to all who want to bash her....SOD OFF!

July 30 2011 at 6:59 AM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
str00ntz

I thought all of her songs sounded unfinished.......

July 30 2011 at 6:23 AM Report abuse -4 rate up rate down Reply
Zelda

Aaah, any chance to hear that unique, beautiful voice. Amy, amy, amy I am so going to miss the beautiful music you would have made!

July 30 2011 at 6:14 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Ed Rice

If she does have some unfinished material I would like to try to help finish it ( I'm sure a lot of other people would to ) or at least give it a shot. I love her kind of tunes and can relate to a lot or most of it. She was one great person and a heck of a song writer,, To bad she could'nt face life on lifes terms. I will miss her so so much,and so will thousands and thousands of other people. To bad some folks don't really miss someone untill their gone. Love ya baby girl.

July 30 2011 at 4:51 AM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
TorrentOff

It is very very bad event, but really it is her fault... I liked her songs, and now I gonna buy all her disks to create a collection...but because of lack of money I just downloade her albums (here http://www.torrentoff.com )

July 30 2011 at 2:59 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
Sherrie

I feel sorry for Amy's parents and close friends. So sad to watch someone go thru what she did and yet have all that great talent. Her music and talent will live on along with all the other great artists who have left us all much too soon.

July 30 2011 at 2:34 AM Report abuse +3 rate up rate down Reply
magyymae1

I am a grandmother and I grew up listening to the famous 27 year olds who died of drugs, etc. The first time I heard Amy Winehouse sing Back to Black I knew she had "IT." She won 5 Grammys in one year. She had many fans while she was alive. Just because you were not one of them doesn't mean anything. there is no reason to slam the dead.

July 30 2011 at 2:04 AM Report abuse +4 rate up rate down Reply
markhelfgott

i feel bad because a Jewish girl who had a lot of promise is dead. But, I think it's time to stop talking about her.

July 30 2011 at 2:00 AM Report abuse -3 rate up rate down Reply
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qapla5

Yeah, because absolutely no one ever talks about Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Jim Morrison any more. (I've got a feeling if the internet had been around in 1970-1, there'd be non-stop chatter about the three of them.)

Hell, even with Kurt Cobain (who died in the early internet era), there was pretty much non-stop chatter about him for MONTHS after his death.

And you think a week is "time to stop talking about" Amy? You know you COULD always just, oh I don't know, stop READING articles and stop clicking on links discussing Amy if *you* really think "it's time to stop talking about her."

July 30 2011 at 2:51 AM Report abuse +6 rate up rate down Reply